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Epic Games Scraps Bulletstorm 2

Bulletstorm may have out dick joked Duke Nukem himself last year, adding creativity to the tried and true kill-bad-guys-and-then-profane-them formula, but that doesn't mean we'll be seeing Grayson Hunt, the F-bomb-dropping Han Solo, again. Gearbox has already pledged to bring the Duke back for another lesbian-infused romp, but as Epic Games revealed at PAX East, a Bulletstorm sequel has already been scrapped.

GameSpot caught up with Epic President Mike Capps at PAX and asked if we could expect to see Bulletstorm 2 from People Can Fly anytime soon.

"We thought a lot about a sequel, and had done some initial
development on it, but we found a project that we thought was a better fit for People Can Fly," Capps replied. "We haven't announced that yet, but we will be announcing it pretty soon."

Capps said critical response was strong and sales were solid for Bulletstorm, but not quite what publisher Electronic Arts was banking on, particularly the PC version.

"We made a PC version of Bulletstorm, and it didn't do very well on PC and I think a lot of that was due to piracy. It wasn't the best PC port ever, sure, but also piracy was a pretty big problem."

Personally, I'm in the "Bulletstorm was fantastic" camp. The PC version definitely had its problems, but it was still a solid over-the-top shooter, and a much better experience than Duke Nukem Forever. Hopefully People Can Fly is working on one of those PC-first games Epic has been teasing of late.